Learning About Computing

The history of computing and the people who drove it forward

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The IT crowd

Influential people in the history of computing

Paul Otlet: Founder of the Mundaneum

Towards the information age

Turing: Machines and Patterns

Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice

Forgotten Women of NASA

Almost 100 years

Tim Berners-Lee: World Wide Web

The father of the world wide web

Ada Lovelace: First Programmer

The Victorian woman who traded in poems for coding and is recognised as the first programmer

Lamarr: Frequency Hopping

Discover how a Hollywood actress helped develop WiFi

The history of computers

Learn more about computer hardware and how its changed over the years

From Computer to Smart World

Explore from the first typewriters and calculating machines to present-day robots

India's First Digital Computer

Learn about story of the first mainframe general-purpose computer in India

Torres Quevedo's Calculating Machines

The analog calculators that could solve complex equations

From Punch Cards to the Cloud

History of digital storage media

Wearable Computing

Discover the technologies that have existed for decades

Vritual field trips

Delve into technology

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